ON SOME CHINESE SPECIES OF OAKS. 81 
this loss was to some extent repaired by the preservation of 
specimens gathered by Sir George Staunton, one of the Com- 
missioners in Lord Amherst’s suite. 
Descriptions of a few species of plants are given in Appendix A 
by Abel himself, and in Appendix B by Robert Brown. In the 
latter the new genera Abelia and Loropetalum are founded, and as 
this paper was reprinted with Brown’s works,* the species are 
all well known to botanists. On the other fad, Appendix A has 
fallen into utter oblivion. Among the four new species | described 
mention I have found of them is in the chapter on a history 
of Wells Williams’s classical work on China.{ After 
searching in vain for the types of these species at the British 
Museum, where most of Staunton’s plants are preserved, and in the 
Kew Herbarium; I acted on a suggestion that some of Staunton’s 
specimens had found their way into the Lambert Herbarium at 
Oxford; but Mr. Druce, who kind dly went Ste the oaks there, 
was equally unsuccessful. They are evidently absent from the 
Decandolle and Delessert herbaria, or they would have been taken 
up in the ‘Prodromus.’ According to M. A. DeCandolle ceed 
graphie, pp. 452 and 458), igatiten: s collections were partly in 
the Se Herbarium, which was bequeathed to the Grand Duke 
of Tuscany, and is now at the Florence Botanical Museum. There 
is Mittohon: the chance that Abel’s ‘yp es may ultimately be found 
there; but in the meantime it seems worth while to bring the 
species to diss: notice of botanists, practically for the first aie by 
_ reprinting Abel’s original descriptions— 
* R. Brown, Mise. Works, ii. 321—328 
t The other two species are, (1), Cam nella Peleg. stn the type Me wee in 
the British Museum, was referred by Seem (Linon. Trans 44) 
Cc. vhs Thbg., and (2), Hugenia wicrophijiia; a note on which IT shall rmnevlly 
pu 
The Middle Kingdom.’ London: 1883. Vol. i ei Since the above lines 
were Semee telegraphic news has been yar fronts w Haven, foment Se 
Chinese Dictionary and in his work on the ‘Middle Kingdom. was also 
much ictaveatad in Natural History. During the first American aati to 
Japan he made, with Mr. Morrow, important collections of plant s, and he 
botanised in China from time to time as occasion offered is name was given 
everal species by his secon Prof. Asa ie —t Dr. Hance, and in closing 
Chinese Empire, and a good naturalist, as well as a learned oriental scholar 
JourNAL or Borany.—Vot, 22. [Marcu, 1884.] G 
